Shona Margaret Bell (married name Grant-Taylor, 19 April 1924 – 7 December 2011) was a New Zealand palaeontologist.
[4][5] By the early 1930s, the Bell family was living in Waipukurau in the Hawke's Bay, where her father was the manager of the Union Bank.
[6] In March 1938, the Bell family moved to Wellington, where her father had been appointed to a head office position at the Union Bank.
[2] In 2011 a newly discovered genus of fossil in the Codiaceae family was named Shonabellia in her honour by Gregory Retallack.
The type species Shonabellia verrucosa was found near Benmore Dam, an area where Bell was the first to describe fossil plants.